Feb 06
Although Steve Jobs claimed that the iPhone’s multi-touch technology was unique to Apple, it turns out that Apple has secretly bought out another company who already implemented the multi-touch screens earlier.
The iPhone inspired a lot of hype over the touch screen technology upon its release. At the latest Keynote, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had invented Multi-Touch technology, but it seems that may have been a slight stretch of the truth.
The REAL inventor of the technology appears to be FongerWords, who invented this technology many years ago and has employed it with their TouchStream LP keyboard and iGesture pads.
Fingerworks was founded by two professors, Elias and Westerman at the University of Delaware, with the aim of developing large touch screens for use as keyboards. The point was to touch keys instead of pushing them.
This latest slip up by Apple is just one of many we have seen lately. Between the iPhone trademark trouble and now lies about the origin of Multi-Touch, a new Apple Inc. is starting to emerge.
Technorati Tags: iPhone, multi-touch, Steve Jobs, Apple, FingerWorks
written by iPhone News Team
Feb 05
The U.K. Telegraph newspaper is reporting that a large gang of European mobile phone service providers are planning on teaming up to create a mobile-phone search engine which would compete with Yahoo, Google, and MSN. Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Cingular are among the providers who are going to be participating at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona.
The fact that providers want to fence in mobile users is turning a lot of heads, and shaking a few as well. Why would anyone use a special mobile search engine, that isn’t as powerful as google?
The only possible advantage would be if mobile operators can successfully create their own search engine, and tie it into location based services that ‘know’ where you are based on triangulation with mobile phone towers you are currently connected to. The dream of location based search and advertising becomes very real.
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Feb 05
BusinessWeek published a “NewsMaker Q&A” with Microsoft’s Bill Gates. There was a bit of chat regarding Apple’s iPhone…
BusinessWeek: Steve Jobs’s most recent performance was with the iPhone, a big rollout. Would you buy an iPhone at $499 or $599?
Bill Gates: Well, of course, I’m the wrong person to ask. I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one
Way to tiptoe around the question, Bill. “Dial numbers with one hand”, what’s that supposed to mean? Maybe you didn’t watch the keynote closely, or ever hold a touch-screen phone, but dialing numbers with one hand is pretty straightforward.
Technorati Tags: Vista, iPhone, Bill Gates
written by iPhone News Team
